PM to attend fundraising dinner in Calgary this week
Perth-Middlesex byelection on Monday, May 12 MONDAY, May 5 House Sitting–The House of Commons is sitting Monday to Friday until Friday, May 16, at which time it will take a week-long break. The Commons will then return on Monday, May 26 and is supposed to sit every consecutive week until Friday, June 20. But the […]
Standing Senate Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources: Part 3
Senator Milne: Are you relying on the provinces to do this? Mr. Dhaliwal: No, we are taking the lead role. Senator Milne: I was hoping that some of the federal money would be for this and also for R&D on biodiesel. Mr. Dhaliwal: Yes, part of the debate that will happen in the ad hoc […]
SARS is not a minor threat: We treat threats at our own peril
The spread of SARS in Toronto could have been brought to a quick stop in the first hospital that it appeared in. The health professionals didn’t know exactly what it was at first, but they did think that the case was one of a few well-known, highlycontagious epidemic threats. That type of threat requires immediate […]
Look who’s come to dinner
Who’s zooming who… Many at last week’s $500-a-plate Maple Leaf Liberal Fundraising Dinner were in attendance to see Jean Chretien give his last speech as PM at the annual party fundraising dinner. Many, however, were there to network and to check out who was with whom and at what table. It was a pretty full […]
Top experts say ‘massive’ PS bill a ‘modest’ step forward: ‘There’s still a great deal of work to be done’: Donald Savoie
OTTAWA–Two of the country’s foremost experts on the machinery of government have dismissed the federal government’s attempt to overhaul the public service — what would amount to the first major reform in over 40 — as “modest” while admitting the legislation is on the right track. Donald Savoie, a public administration professor and author of […]
Proud of Prime Minister Chretien’s stand
I find it interesting that the politicians who feel that Canada should be involved in the Iraq conflict are people who have never served in the military. It is easy to tell someone to do a job that you are not familiar with or willing to do yourself. Instead, of complaining about our government, as […]
‘The personal is political’: NDP MP Judy Wasylycia-Leis
OTTAWA–Canadian Alliance MP Grant McNally, 41, lives every day with the fact that one of his four children has leukemia. The two-termer federal MP for Dewdney-Alouette, B.C., has talked about it over the years in the House of Commons, but definitely does not go out of his way to publicize it. In the House of […]
Ottawa boasts over 453,000 people on payroll: Jim Judd, secretary of Treasury Board, answers long-awaited question
OTTAWA–The federal government can count 453,568 people on its payroll working in jobs located across Canada and all over the world, the Treasury Board confirmed last week. Jim Judd, secretary of the Treasury Board and comptroller general of Canada, provided the information in a short, twopage report to the Commons Government Operations Committee on April […]
Fuddle-duddle?
That Gerry Byrne’s a real knee-slapper. The rookie Minister of State for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency was up on his feet in the Commons last Wednesday afternoon, defending Fisheries Minister Robert Thibault who had recently returned from announcing the shut-down of the cod fishery in St. John’s, Nfld., to angry fishers. Mr. Thibault is […]
Don’t like Chretien’s campaign bill
Canadians should be upset with a Prime Minister using flawed electoral reform legislation as tool to maintain his control of the Liberal Party. On the surface, we all agree that the influence of money needs to be removed from Parliament, but such a move should not create a further tax burden for the voters. As […]
